This Thursday (18-02-2021) sees the start of this year’s Paisley Book Festival, which runs until Saturday 27th Feb. With the theme of ‘Radical New Futures’, the programme is carefully curated to offer a wide range of events, with something for everyone. You can peruse the full programme at your leisure, and get tickets, at paisleybookfest.com, keep up to date with what’s going on with Facebook, Twitter @BookPaisley, and Instagram @PaisleyBookFest. You can also hear co-produc

Keira Brown Imogen Stirling The latest podcast is all about the forthcoming Paisley Book Festival, and Ali spoke to co-producer Keira Brown and writer-in-residence Imogen Stirling about this year’s festival, the challenges faced, the necessary move to online, the theme of ‘Radical New Futures’, and a whole lot more. The line-up is fantastic, and there will be a full SWH! preview soon, but a few names to mention include previous SWH! podcast guests Kirstin Innes, Joe Donnelly,

Today (20/2/20) sees the start of the inaugural Paisley Book Festival, which runs until Saturday 29th Feb. With the theme of ‘Radical Voices and Rebel Stories’, the programme is carefully curated to offer a wide range of events, with something for everyone. Taking place in various venues across town, and riding the cultural wave created by Paisley’s bid for UK City of Culture, this seems the perfect time and place for such a festival – one which looks to celebrate voices and